In order to feel alive, we must feel. Busyness dims our emotional sensitivity. In that dull state, we may have a mental sense of our feelings, while the feelings themselves have become vague memories belonging to someone we used to be. It’s often when we near a state of emotional numbness that our hearts, desperate…Read more [...]

I dreamed that, at this stage in my life, I was repeating my senior year in high school. I had just moved back to my childhood home where other people were living, too. Although I had nothing unpacked, I found and placed what I needed to start my first day of school at the end…Read more [...]

This morning I woke to the sound of that same bird fluttering against the bathroom window. This time as I watched him, I counted the six times he tried flying into the window before he realized he couldn’t go that way. Finally he turned and flew off, only to return a few seconds later to…Read more [...]

Our inner wisdom keeps sending us clues about what to do for our highest good. Are you catching your clues? Remember that Spirit, God, the Universe, your intuition—however you understand it—is there only for you, and so your clues will always come in ways that are easy to recognize and interpret. Last week, when my…Read more [...]

Our inner wisdom, however we name it—intuition, Spirit, God, the Universe—always speaks to us in ways we understand. Our still small voice is the clearest, most dynamic guide for knowing what is ours to do. Among the many types of books I write are movie reference books. As I revise my upcoming Countdown to Oscar’s…Read more [...]

In My First Last Year, I talked about the emotional impact that the song “Sunday” from Sunday in the Park with George had on me. Now another song from the musical prompts me to rise from current challenges so I may again wring the most from this delicious experience we call life. I’ve got to “Move On.” Life…Read more [...]

Whenever I write, I hear his voice instructing me. With humor, patience, and compassion, he helped me learn for myself how to write something solid. His technical and literary expertise vaulted my first book from adequate to excellent.”